Is there any way, how to make rounded HTML <select>, without using any javascript?
I have this insane design and I have absolutely no idea how to do it only with CSS.
The same problem is with checkbox and radiobutton. Does anybody know how to make them rounded?
I need solution that works for IE6+, Firefox 2+, Opera 9+ ...
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No. Form styling is very problematic, there are no guarantees that any styling will work. Simple borders and background colours/images generally work OK in most browsers. I believe Safari will let you style very little. Check this page for more detailed info.
Honestly, the best solution is to use javascript. jQuery click menu is a great solution I used recently to mimic a select box (used JS to set a value on a hidden field when an element in the menu was selected).
I'm sure there are other solutions around too if you search.
No.
Now the long answer: Internet Explorer does not lend itself well to being styled. You will be able to set a background image for the left-hand side (the text content) that has rounded corners, but the drop-down arrow will be fixed as the default browser. You'll also find that the mousedown and mouseover states for the control will be fixed as the default style.
I think that in many cases, the ideal preferred design needs to be a little pragmatic about limitations in browser standards support. Specifically, the problem that IE6 doesn't support a fair number and IE7 is only slightly more compliant.
Sorry for the bad news.
no
please see this site for radiobutton and checkbox
http://www.maratz.com/blog/archives/2006/06/11/fancy-checkboxes-and-radio-buttons/
No, Whit out javascript or jQuery you can not do this. But if you need with jQuery try this link. It contains the HTML select box with rounded corners by jQuery.
http://webworld-develop.blogspot.com/2011/11/cool-html-5-select-with-jquery-and-css.html
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I am trying to simply style my select box so the text is centre aligned. It works in Firefox but not in Safari or Chrome. When inspecting the element in Chrome it says the text is centred, however this is not the case. Can anybody see why it is not centred in Chrome and Safari?
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It will not work. Your best best is to use a plugin. E.g select menu :http://filamentgroup.com/lab/jquery_ui_selectmenu_an_aria_accessible_plugin_for_styling_a_html_select/
That actually replaces the select with a span but retains select functionality.
Well, styling tag is really hard. You have to test different browsers and OS, and hardly you will reach an uniform result.
http://bavotasan.com/2011/style-select-box-using-only-css/
I suggest you to use some alternative component or js replacement that emulate selects behaviour, if you want to style it in an easier way.
http://cssglobe.com/custom-styling-of-the-select-elements/
There's no totally cross browser way of centering the test of a <select> element using just css. Some browsers allow you to do it and some don't.
If you really have to have it centered then I would suggest that you look into using an alternative component like Select2 or Chosen.
I have a requirement by which I need to have something like below as the background of my asp.net menu item background.
NOTE: The menu is populated by sitemapdatasource which is dynamic depending on querystring.
I was doing some googling up and found that I can apply JQuery's rounded corner functionality along with asp.net menu item.
Has anyone got any better solution or probably an example of JQuery's rounded corner and asp.net menu item example.
Thanks,
Nimesh
Another option is to use CSS instead. This works even when JavaScript is turned off.
Unless you can control the browser clients use you will need to use CSS3PIE to get it working with Internet Explorer though.
The CSS properties you need are -webkit-border-radius, -moz-border-radius, and border-radius. If you include all three, and set them to the same value, the vast majority of browsers will render the rounded corners for you.
Also, there will be no visual lag in the rounding as there is with JavaScript sometimes.
EDIT: The CSS selector will be basically the same as the JQuery one.
Is possible to change scrollbars' style for all browsers? If it is, how?
It is possible in Internet Explorer using a number of non-standard scrollbar-* CSS properties. See this page for a handy generator tool.
Other than that, it is possible only using custom JavaScript-powered scrollbar solutions. The jScrollPane jQuery plugin looks very nice and easy to install. Here is an example page.
Styling and programming scrollbars are not addressed by standards at this time, but some vendors have extensions to address this problem in desktop web browsers. The jScrollPane jQuery plugin is an excellent choice if you want to use custom scrollbars.
Vendor Extensions
Internet Explorer (starting with version 8) has extensions to CSS and the DOM allowing you to specify color only of the different parts of a scrollbar.
An updated link to the Microsoft documentation is this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff974092(v=VS.85).aspx. You'll want to just look at all the properties starting with "-ms-scrollbar".
WebKit (e.g. Safari and Chrome) has a CSS pseudo-element for styling scrollbars which allows you to apply any CSS property to it. To learn more see this Surfin' Safari blog post: http://webkit.org/blog/363/styling-scrollbars/
Example:
::-webkit-scrollbar
{
width: 13px;
height: 13px;
}
Mozilla (e.g. Firefox) and Opera do not seem to have any support for styling scrollbars.
Custom Scrollbars
Regarding the jScrollPane jQuery plugin is an excellent choice, if you want custom scrollbars. It is pretty comprehensive in addressing expected functionality of scrollbars and keeps you from rolling your own.
It is important to realize jScrollPane replaces the browser's native scrollbars, and you might not find the "touch and responsiveness" of those custom scrollbars to be as good as "the real thing." But then again, it might be good enough if you value form over function.
This is a more recent link to the jScrollPane documentation: http://jscrollpane.kelvinluck.com/
Nope. IE allows you to set colours for some constituent parts of the scrollbar. Opera allows a few but not all of those styles.
Scrollbar colour styling is of increasing irrelevance as UIs move towards complex image-based scrollbar theming. In IE, setting any of the colours reverts the rendering back to a Windows 2000-style simple-3D scrollbar instead of any swishy user theme. Windows Vista/7 (Aero) users probably won't thank you for that.
You can of course make your own ersatz-scrollbars out of <div>s and style them how you like. But the result almost always behaves worse than real scrollbars, since you're trying to replicate a complex UI element whose expected behaviour is different for each OS. You can spend a lot of time reproducing paging behaviour, keyboard up/down and the mouse wheel, but it'll never quite feel as smooth a real OS scrollbar.
You can style scrollbars for all browsers with a little bit of Javascript. But at present time there is no way to style them using just CSS alone as a cross-browser solution.
This article will help if you decide to use Javascript.
I have a label with a tooltip attribute for rollover effect. This works all great. However, it seems to get hidden behind any dropdown lists that are nearby. I have tried adjusting the z-index, without any luck. This issue does not appear in firefox, and I have not tested it in later versions of IE.
I realize this is probably due to IE6s poor css standards-compatibility, but how can I get around this?
Not the best because it requires javascript/jQuery library, but there's a workaround:
http://dhtmlgrounds.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/ie6-select-box-z-index-bug/
IE6 has a know error that selects always end up the highest in the z order...
Custom select control optional?
Have a look at this
Another idea is to use the ajaxtoolkit autocomplete?
The select dropdown in IE6 is implemented as a Windows control, so the browser isn't really drawing it. Thus, it doesn't support features like z-index. One possible solution is to hide all select boxes on the page when you show your tool-tip. Another option is a custom dropdown, which you can find in libraries like Ext.
As astander and MikeWyatt said, selects in IE are topmost. There are two paths to work-around this problem:
Use a custom select box, rendered with divs, etc. This is rather cumbersome, since you won't be able to replicate all of the drop-down functionality.
Place an <IFRAME> under the tooltip (tooltip z-index > iframe z-index). This will work-around the problem, yet you have to worry about the positioning of the iframe overlay.
Can someone tell me why the CSS dropdown menu (rollover "Software Solutions") works here :
http://deltaassocc.web704.discountasp.net/temp/page-works.html
but not here:
http://deltaassocc.web704.discountasp.net/temp/page.html
This has been driving me crazy! I'm using Firefox 3.0.10. Please help..
There is an awful lot of knowledge built into a CSS menu to cover different browser versions and so on. My advice is don't do this yourself. Get a prebuilt one like suckerfish (or one of the many variants).
Alternatively you can use a Javascript based solution like superfish as suggested here.
Note: if you need to support IE6 then you'll be using Javascript for that browser anyway as it doesn't support the :hover pseudo-element on anything other than anchors.
Because you are loosing focus on the parent element. On the second one, there are more elements below and when the dropdown extends it goes under the content container - you move your mouse down and it's over the text content container, not over the menu container no more.
Install web developer toolbar and outline box elements, you will see that.
Google for jquery dropdown menu or other javascript-framework based solutions, they'll work fine and cross-browser, unless you're doing it just for self-education.
The pages look the same in IE8 and Firefox. The menu drops down but doesn't look at that great. If your using JQUERY SuperFish is a really good cs-menu.